AI Replacing Software Engineers?

[RCA]

Yes. I can now do the work of about four other good software engineers, in terms of complex coding.

Sometimes Grok, ChatGPT, or Claude can spit out 95% perfect code, sometimes it winds up going in circles. On a good computer, it works pretty fast, especially if you are willing to spend some money.

But there has to be at least one software engineer around to monitor and guide it. Also, where people are really needed is in System Design (designing the structure and functionality of the software system, as well as the user interface), and along with that is very important to have experience of having worked in the field, having a good, broad experience of the requirements.

This is the Golden Age for guys like me. The Perfect Age. You have plenty of rare experience that almost no one else has (in my case years of doing MARS appraisals), a strong skill set (many years of working in many computer languages (Fortran, Pascal, Prolog, CICS Cobol, C, C++, C#, Javascript, HTML, Typescript, Angular, Perl, Shell Script), operating systems (IBM OS's, PC OS, Digital, Sun, Windows, Unix, Linux, MacOS, ...), applications (Statistics, Manufacturing, Scheduling, AI, Appraisal, Accounting, Retail, Banking, ...).

You have ideas — and now you have a highly qualified team of excellent, hardworking and CHEAP software engineers to do your bidding.

Beautiful.

I imagine some other professions are like this. You just need to understand where you are at - and how to take advantage of the situation.

 

[glenn walker]

Yes the timing for near tetirement in both
your careers in appraisal and software engineering is almost a perfect ending. The end of the oldest baby boomers coincided with the change in technology.

 

[Tom D]

AI is creating it's own children. Then putting them to work. Just for science fiction conspiracy, could AI put in it's own backdoor secrete code to do whatever in a future takeover. And who would know now.

 

[Vermonter]

AI is creating it's own children. Then putting them to work. Just for science fiction conspiracy, could AI put in it's own backdoor secrete code to do whatever in a future takeover. And who would know now.

 

[Dale Floyd]

AI is scary for various professions, and folks are wanting to retire to hide. But the national debt has to be even more frightening because retirement funds (dollars) are going to become worthless if we don’t stop the country’s madness of spending and debt.

Trump may be saving more than Biden, but it’s not enough by a long shot. We’re in trouble without some real pain fiscally.

 

[Elliott]

My son, in his 40's, has a computer engineering degree. He hasn't indicated he fears AI. As I told him a few months ago, "AI won't replace your job, unless you don't understand how to use AI."